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Way off again Michael..... The whole point of this fork was to unlinking Unity from gnome dependencies that prevent ubuntu users from having Unity and Gnome3 installed on the same machine. This isn't being lazy or attacking Gnome, but to allow users to run a Unity and Gnome DE system, which they can't offer currently due to dependency conflicts.

Way off again Michael..... The whole point of this fork was to unlinking Unity from gnome dependencies that prevent ubuntu users from having Unity and Gnome3 installed on the same machine. This isn't being lazy or attacking Gnome, but to allow users to run a Unity and Gnome DE system, which they can't offer currently due to dependency conflicts.

Your a spin machine.

What's way off? That's exactly what the article says, they're forking to prevent package collisions with GNOME. Nowhere in the article is "lazy" or "attacking gnome" mentioned. I think it's you who is lazy, not even bothering to read the articles you attack...

Way off again Michael..... The whole point of this fork was to unlinking Unity from gnome dependencies that prevent ubuntu users from having Unity and Gnome3 installed on the same machine. This isn't being lazy or attacking Gnome, but to allow users to run a Unity and Gnome DE system, which they can't offer currently due to dependency conflicts.

Not only that, the mailing list post indicates that it's not a long-term fork, just a convenience thing in the near term...

Originally Posted by mailing list

To be very clear, this is a fork with a limited lifespan. We don't expect
to make significant changes to it outside of stability and security fixes.

Then this doesn't affect you. GNOME users will see the benefits. I think this is a sensible and rather altruistic (as it doesn't really benefit their main flavor that much, but people using the GNOME flavor) choice of Canonical.

Originally Posted by Delgarde

Not only that, the mailing list post indicates that it's not a long-term fork, just a convenience thing in the near term...

Yeah, I expected that, as I guess they'll be ditching GNOME dependencies with Unity 8.

Way off again Michael..... The whole point of this fork was to unlinking Unity from gnome dependencies that prevent ubuntu users from having Unity and Gnome3 installed on the same machine.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry for laughing at you, but you do know how Unity 7 works, right? It's just a Compiz plugin on top of, you guessed it, Gnome 3. It CAN'T be "unlinked" as you put it.
As for Unity 8 (which is Gnome-free), they already have the Unity System Settings project in development. This is just a short-term thing until Unity 8 gets shipped.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry for laughing at you, but you do know how Unity 7 works, right? It's just a Compiz plugin on top of, you guessed it, Gnome 3. It CAN'T be "unlinked" as you put it.
As for Unity 8 (which is Gnome-free), they already have the Unity System Settings project in development. This is just a short-term thing until Unity 8 gets shipped.

You didn't understand his point. The thing is, some of the GNOME dependencies used by Unity are heavily patched. Some of these patches are diverging too much from vanilla, which gives problems to GNOME users, as they get stuck to older revisions with the version Unity uses. I might be somewhat considered "lazyness", although I see it as not wasting their resources: they are going to drop Unity 7, so it makes no sense to make great works toward updating a dependency they plan to ditch in the near-term (around next year).